克里斯多夫·谢纳。1573-1650. 来自Admirando FacularsMaculas Varius的Rosa Ursina Sive Sun。布拉恰诺：安德烈亚斯·菲乌斯（Andreas Phaeus）在公爵出版社，1626-1630年。

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SCHEINER, CHRISTOPH. 1573-1650. :Rosa Ursina Sive Sol ex Admirando Facularum Macularum suarum Phoenomeno Varius. Bracciano: Andreas Phaeus at the Ducal Press, 1626-1630.
Folio (375 x 260 mm). Engraved title vignette, engraved portrait of Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, additional engraved title, numerous engraved illustrations throughout (many full-page), woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. [38], 784 (with numerous errors in pagination), [38] pp., with the blanks F4, R6 4I6. Full 18th-century (?) vellum, manuscript spine title, all edges gilt. Repairs to large portion of outer lower corner of first 5 leaves (letterpress half-title, title, portrait leaf, contents and engraved title) with loss to text and images, occasional heavy browning and waterstaining, especially to prefatory and end matter, sporadic foxing, loss to top blank corner of 4G6.

FIRST EDITION of Scheiner\’s major work on sunspots. Scheiner first observed sunspots in 1611, publishing his finding pseudonymously the following year in Tres Epistolae de Maculis Solaribus. The tract initiated a dispute with Galileo over the nature of sunspots. The present work, Scheiner\’s magnum opus and the standard work on sunspots for over well over a century, opens with an extended attack on Galileo, although Scheiner had by this point accepted Galileo\’s theory that sunspots exist on the surface of the sun and are not, as he had previously argued, caused by shadows cast by satellites of the sun. The many fine engravings depict Scheiner\’s observations, a map of the moon, and the helioscope and other instruments. \”For his masterpiece, Scheiner produced the first monograph on a heavenly body, the Sun. Even today it is still an impressive volume, with scores of engravings of sunspots and the various instruments needed for solar observations\” (Jesuit Science in the Age of Galileo). Cinti 79; Honeyman 2781.

克里斯多夫·谢纳。1573-1650. 来自Admirando FacularsMaculas Varius的Rosa Ursina Sive Sun。布拉恰诺：安德烈亚斯·菲乌斯（Andreas Phaeus）在公爵出版社，1626-1630年。